The drums, the vocals, the guitars… they were made for each other. The balance, the sound, the feeling is all there for a totally put together work. Although this album released at the end of 2013, I’m going to cheat an allow it. …
Category: Rock
Thoughts on Ray Lamontagne’s Supernova
While we generally eschew the bigger names in the folk music industry (and are there any bigger than Ray?) for the smaller acts for a lot of different reasons, there are times when certain high profile artist merit some attention. Ten years after …
NeedToBreathe – The Heart
While NeedToBreathe’s newest album, Rivers in the Wasteland, is all over the map in terms of quality and certainly not up to par considering their stellar past, “The Heart” it a song that had them going back to their roots. This acoustic, organic song …
Boy & Bear
My question is, how have I not heard of these guys? Here I have spent most of my adult life crawling through the musical underworld. I’ve heard of a lot of the bands who come across my path. Most of them I …
Guest Post: Jake Nelko on Pittsburgh indie rockers 1,2,3
Every great band deserves a great hiatus. This may not have been the defined mindset, but 1,2,3 have returned after a couple years off the radar with their 2014 release, Big Weather. Fans like me have been waiting with anticipation for their follow-up …
The Bad Suns
I legitimately like the music that I write about. I keep most of it very close. I recommend it to friends. I play it at my dinner parties, in the car, or when I am washing dishes. I received an EP this week …
Free Music Friday – Lake Street Dive
It’s Free Music Friday guys! Happy to kick off April with a free download from Lake Street Dive. This sampler will whet your appetite for their newest album and having them in your CD player throughout the summer. Enjoy some great rock from …
Cape Canyon – Bluebonnet EP – Classic, beautiful sound with sophisticated folk, rock, and country songwriting elements
Cape Canyon are one of my favorite finds of 2014. They have absolutely stunning harmonies and a truly unique overall sound. There’s a certain raw authenticity in their writing. It’s not to say that they are inexperienced so much as to say that …
Free Music Friday! NeedToBreathe
It’s hard for me to overstate how much joy I get out of sharing new music with people. It’s even harder to explain how awesome it is to get to do that and tell you that it’s free! NeedToBreathe has a new album …
Mark Andrew Pudas – Progressive rock singer songwriter
I tend not to feature artists without a specific latest release, but Mark Andrew Pudas intrigued me from the time I first heard him. It’s almost cliché in the “business” to say that some people have “it” and some others don’t. Pudas has …
